InDesign is Lagging a lot latley

[Mother Earth]

I'm having some frustrating issues with Adobe InDesign on my PC. It's been lagging and often crashes when I'm working on projects, and I'm not sure why. I suspect it might be related to my computer's specs, which don't seem to align with what's needed for InDesign, but I'm not entirely sure. I'd appreciate any insights or suggestions on how to fix this.  

PC Specs:

• Operating System: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit
• Processor: Intel Pentium G620 @ 2.60GHz
• RAM: 4GB DDR3
• Graphics Card: Intel HD Graphics 3000
• Storage: 500GB HDD
  

 I'm using InDesign primarily for creating detailed magazine layouts and high-resolution print designs. The files are often quite large, with multiple high-resolution images and complex vector graphics.  

[Mike Witherell]

16GB RAM is a must these days

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[Sharon Villines]

I’m surprised that you are able to run InDesign with 4GB. In the past people have been able to run it with 8MB by ensuring that all other programs are deactivated. I also used “Clean My Mac” to ensure that caches were empty and all junk removed but I don’t know if that will work with 4GB.

Sharon

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[Thomas Phinney]

It is amazing that it runs at all.

Current InDesign requirements are 4 times the memory that you have, and 7 times the size of your entire hard disk, as free disk space at install time. Technically your CPU makes the grade as you have two cores which qualifies as a multi-core processor—but only just. Your poor computer is going to be swapping a lot of stuff to disk because of lack of memory. That sucks at the best of times, and you just don’t have the disk space (or speed for both access and read/write) to make that work well.

So the fact that it does not run well... is not exactly a surprise. Hearing this is like you telling us that you have a talking horse, and you are complaining that its vocabulary seems limited. We are all gawking at the fact that it can talk.

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[Valter Viglietti - Frame Studio]

>PC Specs:
>
>* Operating System: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit
>* Processor: Intel Pentium G620 @ 2.60GHz
>* RAM: 4GB DDR3
>* Graphics Card: Intel HD Graphics 3000
>* Storage: 500GB HDD

As other have said, your PC is stressed a lot to keep up with ID.
That might eventually push it to some hardware failure, too (work harder
-> stress -> too hot -> it breaks); I¹m not saying it¹s likely, but
possible.

IMHO best thing would buy a _newer_ PC (NOT necessarily new; a good used
or refurbished, even an Intel i5 CPU from 8 years ago, at about 200-300$,
would run circles around your current PC).

But if you¹d rather go the upgrade way (nothing wrong in that), upgrade
your RAM first. With just 4 GB you¹re not only wasting your time, it¹s
making your PC stress all the other components.
Since nowadays RAM is quite cheap, no reason to consider 8 GB: just go to
16 GB. If you don¹t have a trusted tech friend to help, you might find a
good bargain on Amazon (check user star ratings).
With RAM at 16 GB you should see a sensible or even substantial
improvement.

Second, you could upgrade your disk drive: apart from 500 GB being
relatively small, HDDs are slow for today¹s computing. If you swap it for
a 500 GB SDD drive (or even 1 TB if you think you¹ll keep this PC for a
while), you¹ll see another improvement in speed overall (not just ID).

Before any decision, just ponder how much you¹d spend on upgrading (RAM +
SDD + time) vs a newer (used) PC.

HTH,
Valter

[David Creamer]

16 GB would be my minimum. I prefer 32 or more for running multiple programs such as InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. That said, if the lagging just started after an update, go back a version or two.

[Betty Taylor]

Here is the link to system requirements for InDesign. There's also a link for older versions.

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/system-requirements.html

The links also let you know which versions of Windows 10 are supported.

You could try going back to version 17.x, InDesign 2022, which is the most recent version that only requires a minimum of 4 GB of RAM (but 16 GB is recommended). 

Can you add RAM to the computer? That's probably your best bet if upgrading altogether isn't an option.

Betty Taylor

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[Martin Wright]

I’m using CS6. Recently I have been having trouble reversing type which was set in black so that I have white text on a dark background.

As soon as I move the type onto a dark background, select it and click [paper] in the swatches box the type gets an outline which won’t go away whatever I try.

My InDesign never had this problem up to a few weeks ago. Have I accidentally clicked on a setting somewhere that is messing up my options?

Can anyone suggest a remedy? Once the outline appears I don’t seem able to get rid of it.

Martin

[mikewi...@jetsetcom.net]

Using the Type tool, select the text and click [Paper] white swatch. Now move it over (above) the black fill object. Does that work?
Remember that selecting a textframe with the Selection arrow is selecting the frame, not the text, and therefore gives you the option to stroke or fill the frame with color.
OTOH, if you select the textframe with the Selection arrow and then click the tiny T icon, now you would be applying color to the text, not the frame stroke or fill.

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[Martin Wright]

Mike

Thanks for your response, but nothing I do seems to work any more. After I select some text with the text tool and click [paper], it produces a thick black outline on the text.

I think the problem starts with the fact that the text starts in [none] mode.

I am now convinced that the problem goes deeper. The InDesign CS6 application is corrupted in some way. Perhaps I need to delete the preferences for the app.

Over time the print booklet function stopped working correctly, so perhaps a refresh is needed. I’m not sure if Adobe will allow a complete re-install on my Mojave iMac which might be a better solution if I could be sure it would work.

Martin

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[Dick Margulis]

Might this be as simple as having accidentally assigned a color to the
stroke rather than the fill? I assume you know that generally speaking
type has a stroke of <none> and a fill of whatever is the desired color.
That's not to say the stroke never has a color assigned, as there are
situations where it's needed. So ID doesn't prevent you from assigning
one. When you do that unintentionally, you get unexpected results.

On 9/9/2024 6:31 AM, Martin Wright wrote:
> Thanks for your response, but nothing I do seems to work any more. After
> I select some text with the text tool and click [paper], it produces a
> thick black outline on the text.

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[Mike Witherell]

And you have looked to see whether you have also activated Stroke versus Fill when the text is selected? Those two icons are at the bottom of the Tool Panel as well as within the Swatches Panel and the Color Panel. When text is selected, which icon is active, ie overlapped forward?

Best to you,

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On Sep 9, 2024, at 7:05 AM, Dick Margulis <di...@dmargulis.com> wrote:

Might this be as simple as having accidentally assigned a color to the stroke rather than the fill? I assume you know that generally speaking type has a stroke of <none> and a fill of whatever is the desired color. That's not to say the stroke never has a color assigned, as there are situations where it's needed. So ID doesn't prevent you from assigning one. When you do that unintentionally, you get unexpected results.

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[R Evans]

I would try moving your preferences file to the desktop and re-starting before trying a re-install. Also, I would contact Adobe customer support before a re-install to make sure they still support the program and can help you if anything goes wrong. I can’t remember if registering CS6 with Adobe was a required part of its installation but Adobe should still have your info if you did register it.

Years (or decades!) ago, I re-installed early versions of InDesign, Photoshop, and other Adobe programs. Adobe had my info about every single version I’d ever bought because I always registered them with Adobe. In at least one instance, I was able to download install files because I didn’t have the discs or a DMG. Adobe’s customer support was very helpful.

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[Sharon Villines]

You might also try a Google search and look at Reddit. Such odd things are happening with software interactions. I noticed that suddenly all my searches in Chrome were being diverted to Yahoo — awful results. I couldn’t imagine how this could happen.

A Reddit thread said it was related to a browser extension — I don’t remember which one but I never load extensions, etc. unless I know the source. It must have come from the Chrome extensions site. I deleted all the recently downloaded extensions and the problem was gone.

Sharon

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